August 17, 2007

...Daniel Solove (George Washington) has the information you seek! Soon it will be easier to compile a list of law professors who are not blogging. (Of course, the number who are listed as being members of a blog and the number who actually blog are quite different.)

July 27, 2007

Like many rulers of vast empires, he has chosen to celebrate his birthday with an act of extraordinary magnanimity: he will forego his 50% of the revenue on the blog empire in 2008, turning it over to us, his minions!

June 24, 2007

Your (nearly) complete Brian Leiter links page, which some readers may want to switch out for their current links to this or my other pages. (I've got another Brian Leiter links page as well, which I may fill out further, though the Naymz site was a bit easier to use I thought.)

May 04, 2007

So I'm getting asked this enough, that I should probably post something, especially given some of the weird rumors circulating in Cyberspace that have been sent my way the last couple of months. I do have an offer from the University of Chicago Law School, where I had a very rewarding visiting stint last fall. It's an outstanding law school and university, and I'm grateful to have the option of joining them. Decisions like this are extremely complex, but I'll post mine in due course. Thanks to those who have inquired. (Chicago also has offers out to two other senior faculty, which I'll post about if and when I get the OK to do so from those involved.)

February 05, 2007

A revised version of this paper I wrote with the philosopher of biology Michael Weisberg at Penn is now on-line at SSRN. This is pretty much the penultimate version, and comments would still be timely and welcome for a few more weeks.

December 20, 2006

I don't usually post these kinds of items, but will make an exception for my beloved home institution; one of my colleagues involved in the selection of candidates passes the following along:

The Emerging Scholars Program at the University of Texas
School of Law is still taking application for fellowships beginning in Fall
2007. The ESP provides financial and institutional support for three or four
semesters of teaching and scholarship in residence at UT for persons who intend
to pursue an academic career. ESP Fellows are welcome into the community of
scholars at UT and receive substantial faculty assistance with their scholarly
projects. More information about the program can be found on the ESP webpage.

Interested candidates should send their applications before
January 26, 2007 to the address found on the webpage. If you are already in
the academy and know someone (especially someone in practice) who might be
interested and well qualified, please forward this information to him or her.

Let me add a few comments of my own. First, our program--this is, in the more common vernacular, a kind of Visiting Assistant Professor program--is relatively new (this fall is only the third year we have welcomed faculty to the ESP), but so far quite successful. We've had a total of three participants who have entered the job market--the first is now in a tenure-track job at a very good law school (and got a huge amount of play on the job market, with interviews at most of the very top law schools), and the next two (on the market now) have had dozens and dozens of interviews at excellent law schools, from the very top national law schools to the very best regional law schools, and already have two offers in hand (last I heard, two weeks ago--I've been out of the loop a bit because I was visiting at Chicago this fall). So our track record is good! Because our faculty is large and congenial, whatever your interests, you're likely to find helpful colleagues in your areas. The teaching is structured so as to maximize the candidate's research, but also to provide opportunity for teaching experience in a "bread and butter" class. (Basically what this has meant in practice is one course a term: either a seminar in the area of research or an upper-level course in one of the candidate's primary areas.)

Candidates who are on the general teaching market this year who haven't received attractive tenure-track offers should consider applying specifically to the ESP.